Wind Roadster - what the press think!

8th July 2011

Cropley gets wind of Wind Roadster - Autocar

Autocar’s Steve Cropley recently drove the Wind Roadster, a car that he has wanted to drive for "ages".

"It always strikes me that this country, with its uniquely changeable weather, is the perfect place for a car with a fast flip-top, and so it proves.

"As I turn into my road, 400 yards from home, having driven a breezy top-down 94 miles from London, huge raindrops start to fall. The top takes all of 10 seconds to close.

"The £17k Wind Dynamique’s engine is punchy, but what you notice most is the chassis’s impressive rigidity, one good reason for its excellent steering.

"The driving position is comfortable and roomy and there’s a pleasant durability about the interior, as if it could live its whole life open to the elements." Cropley’s experience leads him to say that the Wind "deserves more sales".

Sitting comfortably in the Wind Roadster – Top Gear

"This is a bold claim, but I reckon the Wind Roadster has the best seats in the world," remarks Top Gear’s Dan Read in his latest long-term update.

"Somehow they combine the best bits of the scooped-out buckets you get in a race-replica Ferrari, with the squidgy comfort of the armchairs in an exec limo. Every time I sink into them, it’s like they mould to the shape of my ribcage and squeeze just enough to feel like I’m held in place, but not wedged in.

"It’s easy to find exactly the right angle of recline without crushing your head into the wheel when the lever gets springy.

"Seats like this help hook you into a car. If your bottom slips across cheap leather, it’s unlikely you’ll feel much of what the chassis is up to through the medium of your bottom. In the Wind, my firmly gripped bottom tells me that the chassis is good – alert, alive, direct and fun."

Plus, the Wind is proving itself more than capable in the practicality stakes: "Managed to surprise a few people at the tip by pulling many bags of rubbish from the boot. There’s 270 litres of space in there. Impressive, considering you can fit just as much in when the roof’s down." And with the roof down, the Wind Roadster is "a proper feel-good car".